Hi,
today noticed the existence of 4.8, got it, installed over 4.5, all fine.
Test: set Options/encoding to UTF-8, make new message, type ÃƒÂ¤ÃƒÂ¶ÃƒÂ¼ as subject and as body, send.
receiving it on another account, i get a subject ÃƒÂ¤ÃƒÂ¶ÃƒÂ¼, but garbage as body. looking into the header it reads "encoding iso-8859-1" instead of the UTF-8 my options entry has.
<Duh>
After waiting almost 2 years for an update, i'm really dissapointed.

Am i really alone?
Today i replied to an AOL-Mail, coded UTF-8, which displayed correctly with "Umlaute" etc. But the answer went out as 8859-1, and, while in the compose window, displayed correctly, too. But when i look at the same answer now in my "Sent" folder, it shows havoc instead of the "Umlaute".

I noticed 2 problems:
I chose utf-8 as default encoding
1. with french accents, when forwarding a message, the accented letters come out as interrogation marks. I notice that when sending the message as attachment, it displays correctly, buth the subject that contained an accented letter arrives with an interrogation mark (Fwd: FW: ?tre et Avoir)
2. RTL text:
* when typed directly: It doesn't display normally when typing (the word order in the sentence is LTR, the letters in the word display correctly as RTL) but arrives correctly, even when sent as attachment.
* when forwarded : display correctly if forwarded as attachment, with word order TLR if forwarded directly

I always LMOS and when I view this message on line then it displays correctly and is totally legible.
Some of those words might make uncrackable passwords if I had a keyboard capable of typing them in !

I'm not sure if I've not understood something here, so at the risk of appearing a dummy

My encoding is iso-8859-1. PM version 4.8. I send and receive messages in English, French, German and Italian and have never had problems with signs specific to these languages. However, I downloaded and installed the relevant dictionaries from the PM website for automatic spellchecking. Does this influence reception of texts, as well as composition?

tonnelier wrote:I'm not sure if I've not understood something here, so at the risk of appearing a dummy

My encoding is iso-8859-1. PM version 4.8. I send and receive messages in English, French, German and Italian and have never had problems with signs specific to these languages. However, I downloaded and installed the relevant dictionaries from the PM website for automatic spellchecking. Does this influence reception of texts, as well as composition?

Well, perhaps we are two ;-?
You say, if s/o sends you an e.g. german mail in utf-8 it comes clean?
I just had a look at Poco's site and can't see any dictionaries to get, so i digged into the help and found the link to "addictive...", got me the files, and finally noticed they are already in my data folder <g>. But i hadn't activated them, did that now, and would be glad to see now no more problems...

tonnelier wrote:I'm not sure if I've not understood something here, so at the risk of appearing a dummy

My encoding is iso-8859-1. PM version 4.8. I send and receive messages in English, French, German and Italian and have never had problems with signs specific to these languages. However, I downloaded and installed the relevant dictionaries from the PM website for automatic spellchecking. Does this influence reception of texts, as well as composition?

Well, perhaps we are two ;-? You say, if s/o sends you an e.g. german mail in utf-8 it comes clean?I just had a look at Poco's site and can't see any dictionaries to get, so i digged into the help and found the link to "addictive...", got me the files, and finally noticed they are already in my data folder <g>. But i hadn't activated them, did that now, and would be glad to see now no more problems...

Thx & good nightKarl

No, I have never used utf-8 encoding, only iso-8859-1 which appeared as default when installing PM. I can confirm that both incoming and outcoming mails appear correctly with symbols specific to French/German/Italian. Hope it's working for you now

P.S. Agree that the dictionaries are well hidden on the PM site Click on Support in left hand menu>FAQs>Scroll down to "where can I download additional dictionaries?

tonnelier wrote:No, I have never used utf-8 encoding, only iso-8859-1 which appeared as default when installing PM. I can confirm that both incoming and outcoming mails appear correctly with symbols specific to French/German/Italian. Hope it's working for you now

Well, back to square 1: German dict. installed and active, today i got a UTF-8 Mail, correctly displayed. Answered (PM set to 8859-1), and i looked ok. If i now use the "follow up" message display, all umlaute are trash!
Now customer answered again, this new message says 8859-1, shows again umlaute correctly, but also in the quoted parts the trash...
Finally, i answered him, and, using again "follow up" this message displays correct umlaute.
So i think the problem occurs when a utf-8 mail gets answered using 8859-1.

I think you will find that the dictionary has no influence at all on received emails. It is only used when composing a new email as a spell checker, hence it will, if you are lucky, put in the required accents, umlauts usw.

The problem lies in PMs inability to render some forms of text encoding in received emails.

jbuk wrote:I think you will find that the dictionary has no influence at all on received emails. It is only used when composing a new email as a spell checker, hence it will, if you are lucky, put in the required accents, umlauts usw.

The problem lies in PMs inability to render some forms of text encoding in received emails.

You've got me worried jbuk (and Karl too probably). I'm not an IT whizz-kid, but there must be some explanation as to why I have no problem with language symbols incoming and outgoing, yet Karl does?

Yes a mystery - of sorts.
I would be interested to know if you can receive the email text I posted earlier in a 100% percent legible fashion.
If you can P M me an email address I could send the email on to you to see if you really can receive good text and not gobblegook.

If so, then we can broaden out the investigation to see what your settings are like compared with ours as I have always had trouble eceiving French accented emails.

jbuk wrote:Yes a mystery - of sorts. I would be interested to know if you can receive the email text I posted earlier in a 100% percent legible fashion. If you can P M me an email address I could send the email on to you to see if you really can receive good text and not gobblegook.

If so, then we can broaden out the investigation to see what your settings are like compared with ours as I have always had trouble eceiving French accented emails.